Manners and household expenses of England in the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, illustrated by original records

by: Eleanor Plantagenet, Countess of Leicester, 1215-1275; Eleanor, Queen, consort of Edward I, King of England, d. 1290; Norfolk, John Howard, Duke of, 1430?-1485; Botfield, Beriah, 1807-1863; Turner, Thomas Hudson, 1815-1852; Roxburghe Club

Publication date: 1841

Topics: Home economics, Prices

Publisher: London, W. Nicol

Collection: cornell; americana

Digitizing sponsor: MSN

Contributor: Cornell University Library

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Language: English

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Presented to the Roxburghe club by Beriah Botfield. Listed as no. 57 in the club's Catalogue of books, 1898

Preface signed : Norton Hall, March 5, 1841. Editorship ascribed variously to Botfield and Thomas Hudson Turner. cf. Brit. mus. Catalogue ; Dict. nat. biog. ; Lowndes and others

Household roll of Eleanor, countess of Leicester, A. D. 1265.--Accounts of the executors of Eleanor, queen consort of Edward I. A. D. 1291.--Accounts and memoranda of Sir John Howard, first duke of Norfolk, A. D. 1462, to A. D. 1471

Rare Annex copy 1: Gift of Willard Fiske